Nathaniel Smith, previously a NSW state MP, is a member of the party’s religious conservative faction
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The new Liberal candidate for the seat of Whitlam once claimed school students were being “brainwashed” by Marxist and woke ideologies – despite replacing another candidate dumped by the party for his controversial views.
The party’s New South Wales branch administrative committee confirmed on Sunday Benjamin Britton had been disendorsed after Guardian Australia revealed a string of controversial views on fringe podcasts last year, including that women should be banned from frontline roles in the military and that the education system was “indoctrinating” young Australians about Marxist ideologies.
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